Schmitt, Florent
French composer. His music shows the influence of Richard Strauss and the French composers Fauré, Debussy, and Massenet. His most successful work is the ballet La Tragédie de Salome (revised as a symphonic poem in 1910).
He studied music at Nancy from 1887 and in 1889 was sent to the Paris Conservatory, where he was first a pupil of Dubois and Lavignac and afterwards of Massenet and Fauré for composition. He won the Prix de Rome in 1900 and wrote his first mature works during his three years in Rome. He was director of Lyon Conservatory 1922-24.
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